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[renojim]

"HimSigung" wrote:
Greetings. I've been using MyMedia to play my extensive movie collection for a good while now. I was wondering if there was a way to remove the first set of folders (mymusic, mystreams, nowplaying) from ever showing up. I use the app specifically to watch movies and would like to reduce the unnecessary step of loading it up then clicking on myvideos. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

That's not really possible. It's only two presses of the remote.

-JT

[renojim]

sourbear, it sounds like you may not have the right version of the server. Try to get it from here.

If you think you do have the right version, try this video and see if it works.

-JT

[sourbear]

"renojim" wrote:
sourbear, it sounds like you may not have the right version of the server. Try to get it from here.

If you think you do have the right version, try this video and see if it works.

-JT

I uninstalled the old version I had sometime last year and re-installed the latest version thinking that may would fix the video issue for me but it didn't. I'll try that video and report back...

[sourbear]

"sourbear" wrote:

"renojim" wrote:
sourbear, it sounds like you may not have the right version of the server. Try to get it from here.

If you think you do have the right version, try this video and see if it works.

-JT

I uninstalled the old version I had sometime last year and re-installed the latest version thinking that may would fix the video issue for me but it didn't. I'll try that video and report back...

When I tried to play the file you linked to, it made my Roku reboot...

[sourbear]

OK, apparently even the "new" version I installed this week was older than the one you linked to? So I installed it and not it's wanting me to go to rokumm.appspot.com to register it with the code it gave me on the screen. I did that but it never would accept the registration. It just sat there and the only option it gave me was to cancel registration and even choosing that didn't do anything, I had to hit the home button on my remote to get out of it. Go back in it and it still asks me to register it but has given me a different code than it did the first time. Tried to register again but same problem...

EDIT: OK, I got it to work, including your video file and several others I had already encoded when trying to get video to work many times before. Some video doesn't play still but I think that's an encoding issue. Is there a way to take a video file that does work and check out its properties so I can use them to encode all video files?

[renojim]

I'm glad to hear you're making progress! You can use MediaInfo to get all kinds of information on a video file. You might want to check out the Encoding for the USB channel thread. Anything that works for that should work here. There's also another free video converter, Freemake, that some people recommend for encoding for the Roku. There's a thread about it here.

-JT

[sourbear]

"renojim" wrote:
I'm glad to hear you're making progress! You can use MediaInfo to get all kinds of information on a video file. You might want to check out the Encoding for the USB channel thread. Anything that works for that should work here. There's also another free video converter, Freemake, that some people recommend for encoding for the Roku. There's a thread about it here.

-JT

Excellent stuff JT. Thank you.

Any instructions on setting a photos folder? All I seem to be able to set are music, video and streams.

[renojim]

There's two ways to do. Since you're now running the latest server code, you should be able to browse to your server's IP, port 8001, /configure (e.g., http://192.168.1.115:8001/configure) and set the folder there. The other way to do is to just edit config.ini in the server directory with notepad or your favorite text editor and, if it doesn't already exist, add a photo_dir entry (e.g., photo_dir = C:\Users\JT\My Documents\My Pictures).

-JT

[sourbear]

"renojim" wrote:
There's two ways to do. Since you're now running the latest server code, you should be able to browse to your server's IP, port 8001, /configure (e.g., http://192.168.1.115:8001/configure) and set the folder there. The other way to do is to just edit config.ini in the server directory with notepad or your favorite text editor and, if it doesn't already exist, add a photo_dir entry (e.g., photo_dir = C:\Users\JT\My Documents\My Pictures).

-JT

Hrmm, http://localhost:8001/configure says not found but if I go to it without the /configure on it, it loads but only shows My Streams, My Music, My Media and Readme. No option to add a photos or anything else. Will try the second method and see what that does....

Edit: OK, the second method worked but wow does it take forever to browse photo folders and even longer to load a photo. Won't be using that option much. Thanks again for all of your help!

[renojim]

You must not have installed the PIL package. Its purpose is to create thumbnails that match the display resolution of what the Roku wants which significantly speeds up navigation.

I don't understand why http://localhost:8001/configure didn't work. It still makes me wonder about your server version. Are you starting mymedia.py or rss_server.py? You should be starting mymedia.py, although I don't think you would have made it past the rendezvous/registration if you weren't.

-JT